Trees give us wood for housing, business and transportation structures. Because we can plant more trees, wood is considered a ...

Want to try butterfly gardening? Plant butterfly host plants to give caterpillars food and a place to grow through their lifecycle.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets,” said Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac. “But humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for ...

Pollinators are exceptionally mobile in their quests to keep the cycle ... Swallowtail caterpillar Pawpaw: Offers tropical-tasting late-summer fruit and hosts the Zebra Swallowtail butterfly.

Butterflies will visit lots of flowers, but there are a select few that specifically attract them. Learn which ones to plant ...

These are known as the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle. It is a mystery whether this is something that life developed or if it was simply co-opted from something that did not need life to exist.

Monarchs traveled to a remote part of Mexico, a journey they've made for thousands of years, and wintered there. Now tens of ...

For thousands of years, millions of monarch butterflies have migrated from the northern U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the winter. But exactly how they know where to go is still a mystery.

Summer is the best time to spot the rare swallowtail butterfly and Norfolk hawker dragonfly. However, the star of the show is a pair of ospreys that are known to enjoy their summers by the broads.

This article offers essential guidance from Davidson College Professor Scott Villa for Carolina gardeners looking to support monarch butterflies. Native milkweed varieties like swamp milkweed ...